Cricket

Cricket

Terms of or pertaining to the bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team takes it in turn to bat, in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible, while the other team fields, attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs.

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Timeless match

Sports; Cricket

A match which is played until both teams have completed their allotted innings or overs, regardless of how many days are required. Many early first class matches were played in a timeless format, but ...

Sun ball

Sports; Cricket

A method of bowling where the ball is intentionally bowled at a great height and a sluggish pace. This is done to interrupt the batsman's field of vision using the suns rays often causing disastrous ...

Batting collapse

Sports; Cricket

A match situation in which many batsmen are dismissed in rapid succession for very few runs. The terms top order collapse or middle order collapse may be used to describe batting collapses in a ...

Odds match

Sports; Cricket

A match in which one side has more players than the other. Generally the extra players were allowed to field as well as bat and so the bowling side had more than 11 fielders.

Duckworth-Lewis method

Sports; Cricket

A mathematically based rule that derives a target score for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.

One day international (ODI)

Sports; Cricket

A match between two national sides limited to 50 overs per innings, played over at most one day.

Tour

Sports; Cricket

An organised itinerary of matches requiring travel away from the team's usual base. Used especially in international cricket to describe the representative team of one nation playing a series of ...